3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

4. To thrust; to poke. You should have seen children . . . Dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wearpearls. (Robynson (mores Utopia)) to dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. To dig from, out of, out, or up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to digcoal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging ironore, digging potatoes. To dig in, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.